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I feel dumb, but I do not understand this. Randomization of topology and weights is not a terrible starting point, is it?
by ukuina 3y ago
I feel dumb, but I do not understand this. Randomization of topology and weights is not a terrible starting point, is it?
- CamperBob2 3y agoSome say that Minsky was responsible for about -50 years of progress in the AI field [1], so they'd say that no, there's not much enlightenment to be found in his work. 1: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/did-minsky-and-papert-know-that-multi-layer-perceptrons-could-solve-xor https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/did-minsky-and-p...
- Imnimo 3y agoI don't know if my reading is the intended one, but the way I've always interpreted this is not that random initialization is bad. Rather, the error Sussman makes is saying that a randomly initialized network has no preconceptions of how to play. It does - it's just that the preconceptions are randomized and so you don't know what they are. Similarly, closing your eyes does not make the room empty, it just means you don't know what's in it. That said, I don't think my interpretation really matches the intent of the poster above.